{"id":2246,"date":"2017-04-24T20:28:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2017-04-25T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:43:39","slug":"its-lit-4-arrests-at-dcmj-u-s-capitol-smoke-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s LIT! 4 Arrests at DCMJ U.S. Capitol &#8220;Smoke-In&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/214588632\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/214588632\">4 Arrested at DCMJ U.S. Capitol &quot;Smoke-In&quot; Apr 24 2017<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/flugennock\">Mike Flugennock<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After last Thursday&#8217;s arrestees were freed<\/strong> after being jailed on obviously bogus charges, the activists of DCMJ took it to the Capitol steps this afternoon for their &#8220;smoke-in&#8221; civil disobedience to demand Federal descheduling of cannabis and an end to Congressional interference of DC citizens&#8217; right to make their own laws. Four activists were arrested for lighting up on the East Lawn of the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DCMJ activists gathered at the Capitol display a banner <\/strong><\/a>calling on Congress to repeal the &#8220;Harris Rider&#8221; introduced to a funding bill by Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, which prohibits the District Of Columbia from passing or funding cannabis tax-and-regulate legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-07.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-07.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Retired Navy veteran Ricardo Harvin<\/strong><\/a> holds a joint in his clenched fist during the &#8220;speak-out&#8221; portion of the day&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-09.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-09.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DC resident and Rastafarian &#8220;Ras Fia&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> lights up to begin the civil disobedience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/capitolhillApr2417fotos\/capitolhillApr2417-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DCMJ co-founder Adam Eidinger<\/strong><\/a> was arrested along with 3 others who lit up joints on the Capitol East Lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Arrested at DCMJ U.S. Capitol &quot;Smoke-In&quot; Apr 24 2017 from Mike Flugennock on Vimeo. After last Thursday&#8217;s arrestees were freed after being jailed on obviously bogus charges, the activists of DCMJ took it to the Capitol steps this afternoon for their &#8220;smoke-in&#8221; civil disobedience to demand Federal descheduling of cannabis and an end to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20,5,4],"tags":[795,643,794,569,568],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-local","category-health-care","category-liberty","category-smoke-ins","tag-capitol-hill","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-federal","tag-legalization","tag-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}